Your Birth Plan
eBook - PDF

Your Birth Plan

A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth

  1. 331 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Your Birth Plan

A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth

About this book

There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you're pregnant, you're likely already hearing advice and stories about what you should do, how you should feel, and what you should want from your birth experience. Your Birth Plan is an intervention: it's a birth book that equally honors all paths and all pregnant people, guiding and empowering you to make informed decisions, without judgment or prescription, for your own positive birth experience.

Long on information, short on opinions, Your Birth Plan is a how-to guide filled with practical descriptions, insights, stories and tips to make it easier for you to pick where, with whom, and in what way you would like to give birth. Your Birth Plan is comprehensive and free from judgment and prescriptions. It offers unbiased information about all birthing options, including birthing in a hospital, at home, or in a birthing center; having an epidural or an unmedicated birth; induction of labor; vaginal or Cesarean birth; and more. This is a new, inspiring, inclusive, and much-needed guide to help you plan for a birth where you are empowered to make your own choices and to have your needs met, whatever they are.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. PartI. WHERE SHOULDI GIVE BIRTH?
  5. Ch01. CHOOSING YOUR BIRTH LOCATION
  6. Ch02. GIVING BIRTH IN A HOSPITAL
  7. Ch03. GIVING BIRTH IN A BIRTH CENTER
  8. Ch04. GIVING BIRTH AT HOME
  9. SELECTING A BIRTH LOCATION
  10. PartII. BUILDING YOUR BIRTH TEAM
  11. Ch05. WORKING WITH A DOCTOR
  12. INTERVIEWING A DOCTOR
  13. Ch06. WORKING WITH A MIDWIFE
  14. INTERVIEWING A HOSPITAL-BASED MIDWIFE
  15. INTERVIEWING A HOMEBIRTH MIDWIFE
  16. Ch07. DOULA SUPPORT
  17. INTERVIEWING A DOULA
  18. PartIII. GIVING BIRTH
  19. Ch08. LABORING
  20. PACKING YOUR BAG
  21. Ch09. COMMON INTERVENTIONS DURING LABOR AND CHILDBIRTH
  22. INTERVENTION PREFERENCES
  23. Ch10. BIRTH PLANS AND LABOR-COPING STRATEGIES
  24. PREPARING A BIRTH PLAN
  25. PartIV. INDUCTIONS, VBACS, TWINS, AND CESAREAN BIRTHS
  26. Ch11. INDUCTION OF LABOR
  27. INDUCTION QUESTIONS
  28. Ch12. HAVING A VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER A CESAREAN BIRTH
  29. FINDING A VBAC SUPPORTIVE CARE PROVIDER
  30. Ch13. GIVING BIRTH TO TWINS/MULTIPLES
  31. FINDING A SUPPORTIVE TWINS/MULTIPLES CARE PROVIDER
  32. Ch14. CESAREAN BIRTH
  33. WHAT TO DO WHEN A BABY TURNS BREECH
  34. PLANNING A CESAREAN BIRTH
  35. CONCLUSION
  36. UNDERSTANDINGCOMMON NEWBORN PROCEDURES
  37. NAVIGATING THE NICU
  38. CHEST/BREASTFEEDING BASICS AND SIGNS YOU MIGHT NEED HELP
  39. PREPARING FOR POSTPARTUM
  40. NOTES
  41. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  42. INDEX
  43. ABOUT THE AUTHOR